PuppeteerSharp C# PDF: The Hidden Ops Cost (2026 Guide)
If you're considering PuppeteerSharp for PDF generation, here's the version of the story that doesn't show up in the "getting started" docs. It works, it's the canonical headless-browser API in .NET, and the day you ship it to production is also the day your container image gets noticeably heavier, your memory baseline shifts, and a recurring Chromium-CVE patching task quietly enters your sprint cadence.
We're the developer community at Iron Software. We make IronPDF, which competes in the .NET PDF space, so this is a peer-to-peer review with a transparent bias rather than a neutral one. The reason we wanted to write this is that PuppeteerSharp gets recommended a lot for HTML-to-PDF in C#, and most of that recommending happens at the API-shape level ("look how clean the code is"). The operational shape (what you're actually deploying when you take the dependency) is rarely part of the conversation, and...
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